Digital Farming
March 27, 2019
You are at the starting line before the race, or on the field before the game. You look around at your competitors – can I take these guys? You wonder about your own readiness: Have I done what I...
Digital Farming
March 23, 2019
Activity in the ag-tech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years — marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to with Arama Kukutai of the venture capital firm Finistere.
Kukutai told Tim Sandle...
Analytics
March 22, 2019
Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...
Digital Farming
March 20, 2019
A recent research report predicts that the global smart farming market is expected to touch $23.14 billion by 2022, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 19.3 per cent from 2017 to 2022, notes Chittaranjan Jena, co-founder and...
Digital Farming
March 20, 2019
The third International VDI Conference on Smart Farming 2019 will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, May 14-15, 2019.
Smart Farming 2019 – hosted by the Association of German Engineers (VDI), one of the largest technical-scientific associations in Europe – is...
Digital Farming
March 20, 2019
The Climate Corporation (Climate), a subsidiary of Bayer, has announced a platform agreement between the company's industry-leading Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform and NAU Country Insurance Company, a QBE Insurance Company. The new agreement between Climate and NAU Country...
Analytics
March 20, 2019
Growers Edge today introduced an extensive lineup of fintech solutions for growers, agribusiness, distribution partners and institutions to accelerate the adoption of agtech innovations while managing risk.
“Growers Edge has created an unmatched network of technology, insurance and farm partners...
Digital Farming
March 19, 2019
AGCO announces a commercial and technological partnership with Solinftec, a Brazil-based developer and distributor of digital agriculture solutions.The partnership will reportedly give AGCO customers direct access to Solinftec´s portfolio of solutions including on-board computers, weather stations, soil sensors, telemetry...
Digital Farming
March 19, 2019
Anyone who wears glasses, or contacts like I do, will be familiar with the feeling of getting a new set of glasses with improved correction and no scratches. Oh man, doesn’t that make everything look clearer!
It is this exact...
Analytics
March 18, 2019
Leading the way in using drive increasingly sophisticated data and analytics tools to drive efficiencies and cut waste in agriculture and food production is John Deere, writes futurist Bernard Marr on Forbes.com. The 180-year-old manufacturer of farming and industrial machinery...
Analytics
March 15, 2019
Plenty of challenges come with managing growers’ data. Defining when one crop year ends and the next begins. Establishing boundaries. And trying to work with inconsistent, inaccurate, or ‘dirty’ data tops the list.
Editor's note: This...
Digital Farming
March 14, 2019
Around the world, food security ranks high up on the governments’ development agenda, writes Adhere Cavince on Standard Digital. In Kenya, the Jubilee administration has set out an ambitious plan to soar production of food crops such as maize,...
Connectivity
March 14, 2019
Proagrica, the leading provider of integrated data connectivity solutions for the agricultural sector, is on a mission: to guide the industry towards 100% connectivity and embrace the changes and benefits brought by the new data revolution.
“The industry is changing,”...
Digital Farming
March 13, 2019
Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia.
In the last week of February, me and two colleagues from Brazil's...
Analytics
March 13, 2019
For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa, writes Andrew Marc Noel on Bloomberg.com. But today he’s harvesting a valuable new crop from...
Analytics
March 11, 2019
Image Credit: AgNewsWire/Chuck Zimmerman
A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...
Digital Farming
March 7, 2019
The YaraIrix system includes a free-to-download app (for Android & iOS), which uses the smartphone camera to determine nitrogen demands of different crops in early growth stages, writes John Williams on WorldFertilizer.com.
For later growth stages, the app is supplemented...
Data Management
March 4, 2019
Data management continues to grow in agriculture, and the opportunities for learning about decisions made, individual fields, and management practices have made many advances in the last few years.
One of the growing fields of data management for decision making...
Analytics
March 1, 2019
Sentera announces the release of the 2019 PHX fixed-wing drone, with updates that deliver our customers' most-requested features. PHX has been equipped with a new, longer-range high-speed datalink, an omnidirectional antenna system, and an upgraded, higher-capacity battery. Imaging and...
Digital Farming
March 1, 2019
As a greater number of producers adopt precision ag technologies in their operations, and a greater number of firms create and market solutions to meet this demand, we’ve seen a greater number of colleges and universities expand their precision...
